Breakthrough at Magic Lantern, imho this elevates it to a must-have and makes Canon look really stupid: They at last figured out what the digic registers having to do with iso are, and by fine-tuning them your camera now gets an additional 1/3-1/2 stop of dynamic range, no strings attached. Just use +1/3 stop of ec (ML also has ec in m mode, just like the new 1dx fw) and you're done.

This means that for example on 5d3, iso 800 with ML has more dynamic range than iso 100 with Canon :-> ... and at high iso you're getting 7% more dr which is nothing to sneeze at, esp. since it builds upon Canon's advantage vs. Nikon: d800@6400 = ~8.3 & 5d3@6400 = ~9.4 ev making good ol' Canon the superior sensor for low light high contrast shooting, esp. the newer 6d.

If you feel exposure challenged, you can use the ettr module to automatically set the exposure so it covers exactly the dynamic range of the scene with optimum snr :-)

Edit: Updated 5d3 numbers & changed topic, keeping the same(!) iso value the general improvement is more like 1/3ev and not 1/2ev like first reported (it's wip, people!) because the ML iso trick lowers the nominal iso a bit.

The 5dc (or as the hardcore 5d folks would argue: 5d :-)) is currently unmaintained, meaning there's no one around with this camera, some coding skills and time on his/her hands at the same time :-o ... feel free to contribute, it's not such a big deal, but it needs someone to test the new stuff and search for some digic register locations now and then.

Always excited to hear about DR improvements. I went to their thread and it's far too highly technical for me to understand. I will wait for real-world photo examples and comparisons before going through with installing ML on all my cards. The difference would have to be far from negligible for me to bite.

Don't get me wrong, love and respect the creativity and development work being done on their end, just haven't loved the interface and inherent risk, as slim as it may be.

Any ideas on when this will be in at least beta for the 5D3....so that you don't have to set an irreversible boot flag on your camera, and have the slow start times for the camera?

I'm dying to try ML on my 5D3, but I'm not willing to set irreversible settings, or have my camera become slow to turn on or come out of sleep....

cayenne

Number 1 rule for open source projects: Never ask for ETA.

With that said, Magic Lantern can be turned off or even removed without much effort. But I see no reason to turn it off, the only time the boots are slow is when using the card warmup feature which I find to be very valuable. I've been using their nightly builds and RAW video for broadcast work for over six months without any issue.

Magic Lantern can be turned off or even removed without much effort.[/quote]

Do you mean ML RAW for the 5D mkIII?! Can it really be completely removed so the camera starts without lag? Please describe how it is possible!The impossibility of the boot flag reset (= warranty loss) ist the only thing that stops me and thousands other people from trying the ML RAW. So far I could not find any way to do it.

The impossibility of the boot flag reset (= warranty loss) ist the only thing that stops me and thousands other people from trying the ML RAW. So far I could not find any way to do it.

We have got to kill that myth…

You will ONLY void the part of the warranty that has to do with the software and firmware of the camera.

Say fx, you install ML… and within two weeks, your accidentally break the LCD or a button comes off or what ever. Those things are still covered. It's impossible to void anything that has not directly to do with the things that ML changes.

Having said that…. I haven't had a single issue with ML on my 5D3. And since you keep ML in the SD card slot and record to the CF card slot, you can remove ML pretty easily… simply power off, remove SD card, remove battery, and you are back to the old Canon again.

The impossibility of the boot flag reset (= warranty loss) ist the only thing that stops me and thousands other people from trying the ML RAW.

We have no way to verify that, but my personal feeling is that you're wrong here. I do hope and am confident the bootflag removal will also work on 5d3 sooner or later, but from what I read from other users on cameras that let you remove ML w/o any trace there are other issues beside that.

Often, you read FUD that ML is a "hack" and "unsafe", something might go wrong when installing it, it might interfere with normal camera operation. Once the bootflag removal is there, these arguments will pop up again, imho if you want 5d3 ml and are a "ML user type" nothing stops you from using it right now *unless* you are actually planing to sell the camera and fear the buyer complain about a 1sec boot delay. People that are just unsure and a bit uncomfortable about the whole ML thing won't change their mind anyway.

Yes with this build also…. ML is on the SD card… not on the camera. What is done to the camera that might be irreversible is the boot flag and the boot time. But who the heck cares really… if you need a 0.2 sec. wake up time, don't mess with ML, easy as that.

If you want awesome functionallity beyond what Canon was willing to give, including filming raw video, then get ML.

Follow the ML install instructions and put ML files on the SD card.

If you some day get tired of ML again and want the original camera, just download Canon firmware 2.3 instead, and that will remove everything except the boot flag.

The impossibility of the boot flag reset (= warranty loss) ist the only thing that stops me and thousands other people from trying the ML RAW.

We have no way to verify that, but my personal feeling is that you're wrong here. I do hope and am confident the bootflag removal will also work on 5d3 sooner or later, but from what I read from other users on cameras that let you remove ML w/o any trace there are other issues beside that.

Often, you read FUD that ML is a "hack" and "unsafe", something might go wrong when installing it, it might interfere with normal camera operation. Once the bootflag removal is there, these arguments will pop up again, imho if you want 5d3 ml and are a "ML user type" nothing stops you from using it right now *unless* you are actually planing to sell the camera and fear the buyer complain about a 1sec boot delay. People that are just unsure and a bit uncomfortable about the whole ML thing won't change their mind anyway.

It is not only the boot delay, it is the wake up delay as well and this is immensely more frustrating as I had the opportunity to experience with my 5D2. But at least with 5DMk2 I can remove it on the fly and then install it again...